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trammel
[ tram-uhl ]
noun
- Usually trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint:
the trammels of custom.
Synonyms: inhibition, hobble, curb, drag
- an instrument for drawing ellipses.
- Also called tram. a device used to align or adjust parts of a machine.
- a fowling net.
- a contrivance hung in a fireplace to support pots or kettles over the fire.
- a fetter or shackle, especially one used in training a horse to amble.
trammel
/ ˈtræməl /
noun
- often plural a hindrance to free action or movement
- Also calledtrammel net a fishing net in three sections, the two outer nets having a large mesh and the middle one a fine mesh
- rare.a fowling net
- a fetter or shackle, esp one used in teaching a horse to amble
- a device for drawing ellipses consisting of a flat sheet of metal, plastic, or wood having a cruciform slot in which run two pegs attached to a beam. The free end of the beam describes an ellipse
- sometimes plural another name for beam compass
- Also calledtram a gauge for setting up machines correctly
- a device set in a fireplace to support cooking pots
verb
- to hinder or restrain
- to catch or ensnare
- to produce an accurate setting of (a machine adjustment), as with a trammel
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Derived Forms
- ˈtrammeller, noun
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Other Words From
- tram·mel·er especially British, tram·mel·ler noun
- un·tram·meled especially British, un·tram·melled adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trammel1
C14: from Old French tramail three-mesh net, from Late Latin trēmaculum , from Latin trēs three + macula hole, mesh in a net
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Example Sentences
The most correct method of drawing an ellipse is by means of an instrument termed a trammel, which is shown in Figure 83.
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Trammel, tram′el, n. a net used in fowling and fishing: shackles for making a horse amble: anything that confines.
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There was no cult of seamanship, no dead wall of prejudice to trammel modern naval developments.
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The coronation oath, they said, was never intended to trammel him in his legislative capacity.
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That which is progress to-day, may it not one hundred years hence have become mere routine, and a downright trammel?
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